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  would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a good question is would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?.

  were you more happy pimi?

  are all the pimis more happy than the the pimos or the pomos?.

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  ExBethelitenowPIMA

  PIMA usually means Agnostic but I suppose it could mean apathetic.

  Most people who are busy in their lives are generally apathetic but they haven’t got time to research.

  Most people at some time in their lives think about the big questions often after a tragedy or losing someone.

  There is a fine line between apathetic and agnostic. I’m not apathetic because I would be interested if someone found the missing link or some other new discovery that could prove chance theory.

  but at the end of the day both sides arguments can each be used to point towards chance or intelligence. So I’m agnostic which means I won’t commit until proof can be presented which I doubt it ever will be.

  This is what makes life so interesting 🤔
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  Samson kills 1,000 Philistine military men with a donkey's jawbone...I think not!

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the watchtower—study edition | september 2023. study article 37. rely on jehovah, as samson did.

  4 consider an example of samson’s trust in jehovah and of the support that god supplied.

  on one occasion, a philistine military force had come to capture samson at lehi, evidently in judah.

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  ExBethelitenowPIMA

  “ So the Bible itself warns us not to take the story of Moses's 10 catastrophes against Egypt or the story of his separation of the Red Sea. ”

  Where does the Bible say this?

  I didn’t know it told us not to take these miracles literally?
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  Guaranteed way not to get disfellowshipped

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if it’s looking like someone may be disfellowshiped or announced they are no longer a jw and they don’t want to be shunned they just want to fade without being shunned - just say that would make me suicidal .

  simple.

  in the new shepherding book it says if they say that then don’t go ahead with it.

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  ExBethelitenowPIMA

  Yes the less said the better.

  Some really do manage to fade by just stopping coming to any meetings or ministry and avoiding all JWs for a couple of years.

  They would have to avoid replying to any anyone in the congregation and hope they don’t run into anyone and they would have to somehow avoid the elders attempts to come and talk to them. Sometimes elders wait outside their workplace or their home trying to ambush them and get them to say something anything at all that can be twisted and used against them.

  This is why moving away for a while is a good tactic

  sometimes elders make something up based on something they said.

  if all else fails and the individual really doesn’t want to be shunned then just say they are feeling suicidal

  once everyone knows this there should never ever be anymore shunning ever again 😀
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  Guaranteed way not to get disfellowshipped

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if it’s looking like someone may be disfellowshiped or announced they are no longer a jw and they don’t want to be shunned they just want to fade without being shunned - just say that would make me suicidal .

  simple.

  in the new shepherding book it says if they say that then don’t go ahead with it.

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  ExBethelitenowPIMA

  If it’s looking like someone may be disfellowshiped or announced they are no longer a JW and they don’t want to be shunned they just want to fade without being shunned - Just say that would make me suicidal

  simple

  in the new shepherding book it says if they say that then don’t go ahead with it

  https://youtu.be/iNGH_xoaZOk
  
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  NEW DRAMA: UN CAMPS are a provision from Jehovah

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  un camps are a provision from jehovah .

  https://www.youtube.com/@jwupdate?sub_confirmation=1.

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  ExBethelitenowPIMA

  “ We've been hearing for a number of years now about following instructions whether or not they seem practical from a human standpoint or not.”

  Yes that will be it going forward- keep talking the shots, sign up for the digital ID, stay within your 15 minute city go to the concentration camp when told to.

  and then don’t believe the conspiracy theorists who say the vaccines are not safe
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  would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a good question is would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?.

  were you more happy pimi?

  are all the pimis more happy than the the pimos or the pomos?.

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  ExBethelitenowPIMA

  “ He’s now living under a bridge addicted to Meth”

  So he would definitely be more happy staying PIMI or at least PIMA
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  would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a good question is would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?.

  were you more happy pimi?

  are all the pimis more happy than the the pimos or the pomos?.

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  ExBethelitenowPIMA

  Yes I thought we were done when you brought up flat earth and I asked you please don’t keep telling me to read a flat earth book , just one!

  I did not lie it was you who brought this off topic the post you claimed that I did here is absolutely on topic-

  “The person who started the thread took it in this direction here...

  That was on page two”

  This is exactly on topic, someone who is so sure they have found the truth, like you claim Cofty, what if it could be shown to you that what you think is the truth may not be? I suspect you think you would be happier not looking at this argument and if you did see it then you may wish you hadn’t?

  This is why it’s such an interesting topic
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  would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a good question is would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?.

  were you more happy pimi?

  are all the pimis more happy than the the pimos or the pomos?.

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  ExBethelitenowPIMA

  Getting back to the TV show Silo that we talked about earlier I have just seen upto episode 10.

  Long story short what they came to realise was not true because they had another belief system presented- also turned out also not to be the truth.

  They were told they would die outside but they were presented a belief system where it was actually green and lush, they believed this but actually there is a lot more to it.

  This is a bit like someone believes what we have been told about the Bible then are presented with Darwin’s first theory that it was a Big Bang purely by chance and there is no intelligence involved at all.

  But maybe there is a lot more to it than that. Just like Silo some who used to believe the Bibles promises went totally over to blind chance Big Bang no intelligence involved at all.

  what if there was intelligence involved and what if the Bible does have a lot of meaning for us but we just don’t understand it properly?

  But I’m open to the possibilities that people in Cofty’s camp maybe right that there was no intelligence involved and it’s all just blind chance. Even if this is the case I think to live your life with a little bit of hope in the Bibles promises can be helpful especially when someone is going through a very very hard time to tell them what the Bible promises.

  This is not disingenuous to just tell them this is what the Bible promises and they may find comfort in this hope. I can still find comfort in the hope even though my view is it may be right or it maybe wrong.

  I think that a lot more of the 8 million JWs are like me, than most think. They go along with things because they like the congregation but at the end of the day they think to themselves it may be true or it may not be.
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  Confirmed: CO Discourages Zoom

  by XBEHERE in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i can confirm that the co during one of his service talks stated that zoom is a provision for elderly, infirmed, as well as people who might need it on occasion due to health reasons, otherwise you are expected to be in person at meetings and in the ministry.

  this had to come down from the top.

  maybe they do not want to put it in a gb update or broadcast since that would be too public i suppose.

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  ExBethelitenowPIMA

  Many more are becoming PZMI then slowly drifting to PZMO
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  would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a good question is would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?.

  were you more happy pimi?

  are all the pimis more happy than the the pimos or the pomos?.

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  ExBethelitenowPIMA

  So back on topic I’m wondering could you actually have all the advantages of PIMI by talking about the hope of the Bibles promises coming true, and have the advantages of PIMO by not wasting your life too much by sitting on the fence and being PIMA like me?